Holly Jolly here comes Christmas

I love Christmas, it is my very favorite time of year. I love the colors that go with Christmas and all the decorations. It is a very special time!I wish we could have a bit of snow during Christmas but that will probably not be so. Arkansas is not know for it's snowy season, rain is our snow

Although it is still a while until Christmas I have been getting my gifts together. I am usually very very late but decided this year to get on the ball =) We are having all of our family and a special friend with us this year so it is going to be a wonderful time and I wanted to be organized. I want to be able to spend time with my girls,sons-in-laws and grand daughters. So because of that, I actually have a lot of my gifts ready and even some wrapped. I still have some to hand make but just being a bit ahead makes me really glad.

Work has been very busy as it usually is at Christmas time. I always make grand plans for me, my house , my web site and on and on and if I can succeed at 1/3 of them I will be doing well, but I love it anyway.
Our "Going Green for Christmas" event has come and gone and was a great . I love creating things for it, to help folks have a greener home and I love being able to spend time with all my friends and customers who help support me in this adventure of business and life.

In trying to be green in our home we recycle and try to reduce , reuse everything we can, I hang out laundry to save on energy and I save almost every scrap of fabric that I have left over to keep to use for other projects. I have a stock pile, and try not to toss out anything until I know I cannot use it. My daughter comes home to visit and is able to gather some of the larger scraps to make quilts. This is my favorite way to see the reuse of something, and being rewarded in seeing a beautiful quilt.

Kelly's quilt from scraps

Things you might like to check out

 I would love it if you check out our new drawing we will be having on our web site this week. This is a cute Christmas apron that would be great to wear to celebrate your holidays. You don't need to purchase anything and it will be shipped out as soon as the name is drawn (well as soon as the post office opens =) so that you could have it in time for Christmas. You can enter here.

We are also having a Monday cyber sale, with some great deals . Cyber monday Sales

Now when you order and we ship your item we will be sending you an invoice by email to save on paper waste. You can print it if you choose or you can save it to your computer. We have also reused boxes provided they are lean & sturdy. It is another step in trying to help our company head in that green direction as much as we can.

I hope you all are looking forward to Christmas as well. Even during the hard time we have much to be grateful for. And remember happiness is fleeting but Joy is everlasting !

The Holidays are coming our way!!

It has finally cooled off a little here and has made life a bit easier.The garden is still growing and we are beginning to look forward to the holidays.
So far we have had an eventful year, our second grand daughter arrived in June, a blessing to our oldest daughter & her husband and one to us as well. Our youngest daughter was able to visit with our oldest grand daughter 2 1/2 year old Ivy and it made summer the most enjoyable yet.She is a joy to be with! Many of the ideas I have and the inspiration I receive comes from my daughters and grand daughters and they make life wonderful! I am looking forward to the holidays and creating special things for all of you!

     I thought to kick off the fall and holiday season I would do a drawing for one of our new Home Banners. I have our new Halloween "Trick or Treat" banner made and ready for the free drawing.You can hang these in your house or on a wreath hanger for your front door to announce each holiday. These will be added to our web set as ready made items later this year. We will be celebrating all the holidays with these cute banners, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's ,birthday's & many more. You will be able to hang the birthday's ones on the front door for a week to announce and celebrate that special persons birthday. Enter at our web site until Sept 30th,2011 and the winner will be announced Oct 1st,2011.ENTER OUR DRAWING HERE!
     I will soon be announcing the date for our "Going Green for Christmas" event. Everyone will be welcome and it will be a fun day. Free drawings, snacks, and lots of great items for gifts for folks in your family. This is going to be one of my favorite fun things to do.Check out our face book page for sneak peak pictures starting October 1st. Like our Face book page and you will have the updates on a regular basis.SEE US ON FACEBOOK! 
Our special for the month is $5.00 off our Christmas ornaments. We have Ballet, Bridal,Baby, Basketball, Cheerleader & Irish Dance available and are happy to provide you with customs ones we don't provide on a regular basis.These are regularly $15.00 and will be on sale for $10.00 until Sept 30th.
Have a great fall everyone!! Thanks for being so wonderful!

Summer, Fall & back to school

It has been a very busy summer here at J&K designs. A new grand daughter in the family and another one to visit meant plenty of opportunity to do some sewing for fun along with some work projects as well. I love to sew & create, it is a passion for me and any new opportunity to create something fun, is one I will take. Here are the girls in one of their J&K Designs creations. They were perfect for a little photo shoot as well. Matching pillow case dresses with red rick rackand co-ordinating bloomers of red with white polka dots made for a  fun and whimsical outfit, and a very cute picture

I had some inspiration from our daughter Kelly (the K in J&K Designs) and will soon be trying out a new project for the home. I think it will be great fun and something everyone might like to have for their home.I am excited about it and can't wait to see it completed!
Fall is on the way, or so I like to hope and time to start thinking about Thanks giving and Christmas and any really special gifts that you might be wanting to give to that some one special.We will be having our Christmas show again this year here at the house and I hope to have some new and fun things for everyone to be able to choose from.Here is a picture from last years, I had a great time and look forward to this years as well.

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July drawing & coupon

It July and it's warm out. It time for a new drawing for a free item at J&K Designs!

We have a Bride/groom 4 piece towel set for our drawing this month. No purchase necessary. Enter here to read rules and to enter. This would make a great wedding gift for the Bride & Groom or bridal shower. Enter from July 9th - July 19th. http://www.jkdesignsar.com/contestpage.html
Also we have anew coupon for very one. Free shipping on US order and $5.00 off of international orders. Check it out here http://www.jkdesignsar.com/webcouponpage.html. Both end July 19th so don't delay!